Prediction: Vintage Wikipedia is about to become a thing. One of the major costs of having activists steering formerly reliable publications will be the erosion of some entries starting around 2013-6. Readers will routinely roll back entries to purge naked activism from articles.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1191562589735542784 …
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Wikipedia’s former strength is about to become a weakness: letting “reliable sources” proxy for truth. Not having central authority tasked with responsibility for saying when activists at Nature, Cell, Science, CNN, NYT, Fox, NPR etc can be ignored is going to be a big problem.
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein
Social behaviors that work when a minimum level of decency can be expected and collapse below a certain threshold. This could be generalized to a lot of institutions we take for granted.
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Replying to @XFaure @EricRWeinstein
As contemporary political events are clearly showing.
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